By IREEN MULENGA The Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) Zambia with Support from USAID has handed over 90 goats to the vulnerable families of Mufulira district. The livestock’s were presented to beneficiaries through the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock by CMMB Community Services and Linkage Officer Shankley Moono. Mr Moono said goats that have been […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE The Southern African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) is elated by President Hakainde Hichilema’s commitment to peace, security, and stability during his travel to the United States of America (USA) on attending the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). SACCORD Executive Director Boniface Cheembe said they are comforted and at […]
The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says they are willing to resume talks with the South if it ends its “hostile policies”. Kim Yo-jong was responding to a renewed call from the South to officially declare an end to the Korean War. The conflict, which split the peninsula into two, ended in […]
Ugandan opposition MP Allan Ssewanyana was re-arrested moments after being released from prison on bail on Thursday evening. His lawyer, MP Shamim Malende, says she has no information on who is holding her client nor his whereabouts. In a video clip shared across social media, the legislator can be seen walking past the prison facility’s […]
Former South African President Jacob Zuma is back home after he was discharged from hospital, local media report, where he is expected to serve the rest of his jail term for contempt of court. He spent his first night at his Nkandla home in KwaZulu-Natal after his release from the hospital in Gauteng, the Times […]
By MAIMBO MWEEMBA Ministry of local Government has acquired 166 contracts covering 6,390 kilometres of feeder roads valued at over 8 billion Kwacha. Local Government and Rural Development Minister Garry Nkombo said this brings the ongoing contracts to 211 covering over 8657 kilometres in various districts countrywide. Mr Nkombo said that his ministry has procured […]
Exiled Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has been detained in Italy on a Spanish arrest warrant. Spain has accused him of sedition for a breakaway independence referendum in 2017 that the courts ruled illegal. At the time he was president of Catalonia but fled to Belgium after the vote. He lives there and sits as […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) has welcomed Government’s decisions to halt the debt swap initiative. CTPD Head of Research Boyd Muleya said that the debt swap was implemented in haste and lacked the full support of key stakeholders such as the financial lending institutions. Mr Muleya said the Center […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE National Action for Quality Education in Zambia ( NAQEZ)says that it has never interfered in any Teacher Union activities as it is a nationally and internationally respected Civil Society Organizations. NAQEZ Executive Director Aaron Chansa said that the organisation has been championing quality education in Zambia and cannot discuss quality education without […]
By MAIMBO MWEEMBA Chingola Mayor Johnson Kang’ombe has pledged to continue rebuilding Chingola with the aim of turning it into a city. Speaking during his installation ceremony yesterday, Mr Kang’ombe commended former Mayor Titus Tembo for his service to Chingola. “Chingola Municipal Council under Mr Tembo has built nine market shelters, rehabilitated roads, and put […]
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Maimbo Mweemba
